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"For the Landavazo\u00A0family, water isn't just a precious resource -- it's a constant struggle.\"I usually make two trips because I need to fill up our daughter's tank and our tank,\" explains Richard Landavazo.For the past four years, any time they need water, they have to get in a pickup truck, drive to a neighbor's well, fill up a 500-gallon water tank and then transfer the water by hose into their own tank.The family doesn't live deep in the wilderness; they live just outside Rio Rancho.When Virginia and Richard Landavazo moved in, they never thought this would be their lives. Virginia says she can't keep living like this.Sandoval County believes at least 70 families in this area of the unincorporated county off Southern are in the same boat, after the development's original wells caved in.From her front porch, Virginia can see city water sources. The problem is she's not inside Rio Rancho limits, so it'd be costly to hook up. Deepening the issue, the county doesn't even have its own water source. The county told Target 7 it knows about the problem, but simply doesn't know how it can help.The \u00A0Landavazo\u00A0family already sunk $25,000 into drilling a replacement well and says the guy never finished the job.\"There's 79 people that are hauling their water, and yet, nothing,\" Virginia said. \"We cant get nothing.\"A hopeless feeling for families who feel hosed and forgotten."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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